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Job 15:5
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- New International Version (NIV)Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Context of Job 15:5
3Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good? 4Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. 6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee. 7Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
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כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֹנְךָ֣ פִ֑יךָ וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 15:5
- Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- Job 12:6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Luke 6:45The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked [man] out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
- James 1:26If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
- Psalms 50:19Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
- Psalms 64:3Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
- Psalms 120:2Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
- Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
- James 3:5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
Commentaries on Job 15:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5For thy mouth uttereth - In attempting to justify thyself, thou hast added iniquity to sin, and hast endeavored to impute blame to thy Maker. The tongue of the crafty - Thou hast varnished thy own conduct, and used sophistical arguments to defend thyself. Thou resemblest those cunning persons, ערומים arumim, who derive their skill and dexterity from the old serpent, "the nachash, who was ערום arum, subtle, or crafty, beyond all the beasts of the field;"…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity - Margin, “teacheth.” That is, “your whole argument shows that you are a guilty man. A man who can defend such positions about God cannot be a pious man, or have any proper veneration for the Most High.” A man may pursue an argument, and defend positions, that shall as certainly show that he is destitute of religion as though he lived an abandoned life; and he who holds opinions that are dishonorable to God, can no…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. The sophistry of thine own speeches proves thy guilt.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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